COMPUTERISATION
OF RAIL SERVICES
RAJYA SABHA
Railways are continuously taking steps for computerizing its
activities specially in the field of passenger reservation. Besides
this , steps are underway to computerise freight movement activities
also in a phased manner.
There is a plan to cover all stations, having
a workload of 100 transactions per day, all District Headquarters,
rail-head as well as non- rail-head, and important tourist stations
and other important stations with computerized reservation facilities.
Further, the implementation of pilot project is underway in Delhi
area for providing facility of ticket booking through internet.
Facility of internet based booking will be extended to other places
depending upon the success of the pilot project. Computerised
passenger reservation services, with a facility of on-line booking
of tickets, are already available at 742 locations all over the
country. These facilities have been sanctioned at another 150
new locations in the Annual Budget 2002-03
Implementation of project of Freight Operation
Information System is underway Under Phase I, one more module,
Rake Management System (RMS for capturing the freight movement
information in rake form has been implemented on Zonal Railways.
RMS application provides information on rake based consignment
tracking, stock holding, train and stock interchange, terminal
handling information, loco holding and outage. Phase II covering
implementation of Terminal Management System (TMS) is underway
and likely to be completed by March’2004. TMS application once
implemented will capture registration of indents for wagons by
customers and wagon-wise supply and loading details. It will also
be possible to issue computerized Railway Receipts.
This information was given by the Minister of
State for Railways , Shri Bandaru Dattatraya in a written reply
to a question by Shri R.P.Goenka in the Rajya Sabha today.
